General Examples Clean-Up

Several pages are clogged up with general examples. Periphery Hatedom, Pop-Culture Isolation, and a few others are prime examples. This thread was created to help fix this.

Bumping. UnintentionalPeriodPiece.Special Cases has a lot of these.

• Advertising in general has a tendency to be dated to whatever time period it came out, due to its constant attempt to capture the zeitgeist of whatever era it appeared in in order to better market products. As Charlie Brooker explains:
  "Old adverts are like little nostalgia bombs, really. Each one sums up the year in which it appeared in an instant. '60s ads are cool and swinging, the '70s ads are sort of brown and grotty, whereas the '80s were characterized by power ballads and absolute swaggering fuckery like this." ... "'90s ads were all huggy-wuggy and sophisticated, whereas the noughties can't decide if they're all troubled and weird, or inspirational like this bloke whose cycling glory has prompted an identity crisis."

Bumping again. This example outright says it is a general example:

• As a general rule, many toy lines that were backed by Merchandise-Driven animated series fell into a Dork Age in the '90s. By the late '80s, parents' and teachers' groups had grown increasingly vocal in their criticism of 'half-hour toy commercials' and pushed for more educational alternatives. Their efforts culminated in the Children's Television Act of 1990, which restricted advertising for toys and food products during kids' shows and mandated that broadcast networks produce a certain amount of educational and informative programming per week (the source of the "E/I" graphic displayed on many edutainment shows in the US). The Children's Television Act pretty much ended the Golden Age of Merchandise-Driven kids' shows, and without their primary support networks, even those toy lines that didn't simply wither and die saw their popularity fade — and with it, the amount of effort that went into designing and making them.

Permission to cut?

Yes.

It's been cut, thanks

Found on He Knows Too Much:

• In the world of drugs and prostitution, it is easy for people to disappear when others fear they know too much.

This seems way too general. Permission to cut?

Yes.

Thanks, I removed it.

Not just that, but He Knows Too Much has the Tabletop Games folder in the wrong position.

The folders should be sorted as Tabletop Games, then Theatre, then Urban Legends.

Perhaps I know too much and be put down for pointing out the incorrect sorting of folders.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Dec 31st 2020 at 10:37:24 AM

Not quite sure if this is "general", but I found an example that's just a Long List on Rearrange the Song:

• The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mister Ed, I Love Lucy, The Patty Duke Show, The Munsters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Daniel Boone, Gilligan's Island, F Troop, Get Smart, The Avengers (1960s), That Girl, Mission: Impossible, Ironside (1967), The Brady Bunch, The Odd Couple, The Partridge Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Bob Newhart Show all have examples of this; in the case of Avengers and Jeannie, this was after having earlier Replaced the Theme Tune altogether.

Split and comment out. There is no context for any of them, but a commented-out ZCE is better than nothing.

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From Instantly Proven Wrong, I'm 100% sure this is too general.

• This trope is a staple of Disney Channel sitcoms; a character will say something, often in the reassurance that something won't go wrong or that everything is fine, only to have another character walk in and do or say something that immediately proves them wrong. Cue laugh track.

It's also complain-y. Slice away.

Bumping this. Should this thread be moved to Long-Term? I think it would function better there.

Another bump, and I apologize for doing this, but I will once again request a Long-Term move.

I'll second a move.

This thread is so slow and small that you can probably just re-start the effort with a new thread from scratch.

You know, I think I'll just do that and request that this thread be morgued.

That works, too.

New thread. Requesting a morgue on this old one.

Morguing as requested.